totem won't start

wdave58 · 08-08-2006, 07:29 PM

totem states " totem could not startup - the video output is in use by another application. please close other video applications, or select another video output in the multimedia systems selector" i am using gnome desktop with suse 10.0 , am willing to select another video output but not sure how , have real player but thought it was for audio only, could download this xine but not sure how - linux newbie in yast update module? - yum?
thanks,
dave

EclipseAgent · 08-08-2006, 08:33 PM

Howdy Welcome..

First off check this thread out:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=470871

And check the guide that it provides.. it will help you set up repositories to install xine for totem and mplayer if you wish.

wdave58 · 08-11-2006, 02:33 PM

found xine and yast2,
installed xine but totem still will not work, tried kafeine but it will not play .wmv, don't know if xine will, ...
article helpful about some command line commands and yast2 installations, had tried it before but was typing in totem in the search and got nothing - showed up when i typed xine though -
...tried un-reinstalling totem but still is cantankerous - don't know what repositories are though still>? - will learn and grow thanks for your help
wdave58

EclipseAgent · 08-11-2006, 02:59 PM

Install w32codecs from Packman repository

wdave58 · 08-12-2006, 12:59 PM

found pacman site but under multimedia there are 30 files/programs including totem, don't know how to tell the ones that are win32 and i am not sure what a codec is?
dave

wdave58 · 08-12-2006, 01:02 PM

not sure what a codec is? ,,, found pacman site but there are about 30 files there under multimedia, not sure the ones i need to be win32 codecs?
dave

EclipseAgent · 08-12-2006, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wdave58

not sure what a codec is? ,,, found pacman site but there are about 30 files there under multimedia, not sure the ones i need to be win32 codecs?
dave

Add packman as a repository..

Read the guide I posted above..

Once you have set it up as a repository, you will then search for w32codecs within Software Manager (in YaST) and check it for installatoin..

Once that's checked then it will resolve dependincies and you'll be set to go..

Read the guide above.. it'll tell you how to do it, and give you a better explination on software installation via YaST

wdave58 · 08-14-2006, 11:43 PM

still not sure what a repository is or how to add it to software manager in yast2, read the guide again and i can't find where it explains any of this - only adding applications in yast, i found the site "packman" as links2linux.org and found the codecs - looking to find how to add this as a repository to yast?
thanks,
dave